For many years as honorary secretary of a prison ministry, we were given permission by the government to visit prisons all over the state and counsel those jailed inside. Quite often, tough looking men and women would burst into tears and continue weeping as they regretted some crime they committed…
Instant Justice, Immediate Gratification..!
“I’m bored!” is not a cry we hear often nowadays. Every effort has been made by shrewd marketeers and technologists to see that not a moment of monotony and dullness creeps into the waking hours of our youngsters and also ourselves. Instant gratification is available at the click of a…
Control That Animal In You..!
We hear of accidents happening because a car, bus or truck went out of control right? Maybe brakes failed, or too high a speed or a sudden pothole! But when men and women go out of control, all we can cry out is why? “Why?” we cry out to rape-…
Alligator in a Gutter..!
You and I have seen videos of snakes being pulled out of flats and bungalows, but I was pretty astounded to see an angry alligator laboriously hauled out of a Mumbai gutter. I realized it’s jaws had not been tied too tight and rushed to the cage where it was…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.